<span>jos poortvliet,<br><br>There are 3 levels.<br></span><ul><li><span>The first shows the normal desktops and the applets' contents (100% zoom).</span></li><li><span>The second shows the groups with the applets shaded (similar to KWord) and the applets' icon & name (50% zoom).
</span></li><li><span>The third shows the groups iconified (10% zoom).</span></li></ul><span><br>Level one is to be used as a desktop.<br>Level two is mostly for moving applets between groups and changing groups.<br>Level three is for organizing (adding, removing
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span>, exc.) the groups. The user can also enter groups from this level.<br><br>We are planning to use mouse-over buttons to control the groups (similar to how the desktop icons work). When the user moves their mouse over a group, they will be presented with the option to enter the group (and go into desktop mode), delete, and other options.
<br><br>The current status is that the user can zoom in and out. If my code is correct, the applets should be shaded in group 2 (based on their bounding box), and an icon displayed in the center of each applet. I can't test this until kdebase/libs are done compiling though.
<br><br>If anyone would like to help, I could use it (with the groups especially :-) ).<br><br>Thanks,<br>Aaron (fonz)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sven Burmeister</b> <
<a href="mailto:sven.burmeister@gmx.net">sven.burmeister@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi!<br>
<br>On Montag, 23. Juli 2007, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:<br>> Absolutely agreed, that's also my idea.<br>> Yesterday I made this very quick and rough mockup on how zooming should<br>> work for the plasmoids. Attached it, let me know of what you think.
<br><br>No matter whether this is zooming or resizing, this is what I meant and I<br>think that using the mousewheel on plasmoids should change the levels and not<br>the desktop-zoom. The latter should only happen when using the mousewheel on
<br>an empty spot of the desktop.<br><br>With this the k3b/amarok etc. -systray-icon could become really useful because<br>the user can easily place them wherever one needs them and at whatever size<br>one needs them.<br>
<br>Knetwork could shrink to a normal icon and be expanded to a small list of<br>available passwords and so on.<br><br>Sven<br>_______________________________________________<br>Panel-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Panel-devel@kde.org">
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